I noticed a spike in visits this morning that I’ve traced back to a reference in a post at the 5DMk2 blog at 1001 Noisy Cameras to yesterday’s post here about Live View on the 5DII. Thanks for the link, and welcome to visitors entering my blog world through the 1001 Noisy Cameras doorway. (And for those who arrived via a different route, if you are interested in the 5D2 and related topics, you should wander on over to the 5DMK2 blog once you finish up here.)

The two points I wrote about yesterday (the benefits of live view for depth of field preview and for shooting with very dark ND filters) are not the only benefits of the live view feature. For example, I earlier wrote about its value when doing night photography, and quite a few of my recent wildflower photos took advantage of it. Before long I hope to write up a more complete article outlining the range of uses for live view.

If this is your first visit to my blog, take a look around. I post a daily photograph (recent work has come from Death Valley and a number of central California locations) and the occasional opinion or news piece. You can subscribe via RSS (link near the top of the page) and members are welcome to post discussion messages.

(Shortly after posting this I got a message from B&H photo saying that they again have the Canon EOS 5D Mark II in stock, and unlike some other dealers they sell it with no markups at the list price of $2669.95.)